Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> writes:
> But now that the cat has got off and I am wearing the right glasses, I
> can confirm that my suggestion does not work as-is; even when
> \futurelet has changed \nexttoken into the character '*', the \ifx
> fails, for reasons that temporarily escape me ...
After a few minutes... I saw \nextoken != \nexttoken.
Now your approach seems to work!
(But I wonder what redefining newline breaks...)
Thanks,
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